LT215-5-SP-CO:
The Romantics: Poetry, Prose, Imagination
2024/25
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Monday 13 January 2025
Friday 21 March 2025
15
21 August 2024
Requisites for this module
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BA Q300 English Literature,
BA Q303 English Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA Q320 English Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA Q321 English Literature (Including Year Abroad),
MLITQ391 Literature
Romantic writers valued feeling, freedom of expression and the power of the imagination. Writers we now consider establishment figures, such as William Wordsworth, John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge rebelled against conventionality, both in their writing and their personal lives. Women writers pursued liberation through literature – on this module you will read works by Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, and others.
Your study of poetry, prose and drama produced around the turn of the 19th century will provide you with an understanding of a relatively brief, although turbulent and complex period in our literary history.
Established and new critical approaches and theories will provide a framework for your enquiries.
The aims of this module are:
- To provide a strongly supportive learning environment in which students will study Romantic period poetry and prose.
- To engage students with critical approaches and theories relevant to the study of Romantic writing.
- To enable students to take full advantage of the research expertise of the tutor and the resources in the University's Albert Sloman Library.
- To enhance employability by providing transferable skills that have practical applicability in the world outside the university.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Demonstrate a suitably advanced understanding of key areas of Romantic writing.
- Demonstrate a suitably advanced understanding of key theories of interpretation, and be able to apply these to texts.
- Display mastery of the complex cultural, historical and social contexts that inform Romantic poetry and prose.
- Employ a range of research methods that build self-directed enquiry in a specialised area of study.
Students will acquire the following transferrable skills:
- Develop confidence and advanced skills in critical analysis and expository writing about Romantic literature.
- Develop skills in using materials in databases and electronic archives.
- Develop advanced skills and confidence in presenting and discussing their work, orally and in writing.
Required texts:
- Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.
- Shelley, Mary. Mathilda.
- Wu, Duncan, ed. Romanticism: an Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012. (NB: Where possible, I have selected texts contained in this anthology. Students taking the module are advised to purchase or borrow the collection).
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Slave Ship / Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On. (no date). Available at:
https://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-50-autumn-2020/winsome-pinnock-jmw-turner-slave-ship.
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Goya, F., Malbert, R., and Hayward Gallery (1997) Goya: the disparates. [London]: South Bank Centre.
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. III. edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge (no date). Available at:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/21811/pg21811-images.html#Page_30.
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Gary Dyer (2001) ‘Thieves, Boxers, Sodomites, Poets: Being Flash to Byron’s Don Juan’,
PMLA, 116(3), pp. 562–578. Available at:
https://www-jstor-org.uniessexlib.idm.oclc.org/stable/463498?sid=primo.
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Keats, J., Gittings, R. and Mee, J. (2002)
Selected letters. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at:
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=282242.
The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
Coursework |
Online Portfolio (Submitted via Moodle) |
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15% |
Coursework |
Short Essay (1,000 words) |
21/02/2025 |
20% |
Coursework |
Research Essay (2,500 words) |
25/04/2025 |
60% |
Practical |
Participation |
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5% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Susan Oliver, email: soliver@essex.ac.uk.
Professor Susan Oliver
LiFTS General Office, email: liftstt@essex.ac.uk
Telephone 01206 872626
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Dr Doug Haynes
University of Sussex
Reader in American Literature and Visual Culture
Available via Moodle
Of 10 hours, 6 (60%) hours available to students:
4 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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